Readings Of The Vessantara Jtaka - (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: Readings of the Vessantara Jtaka - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Columbia

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The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology features well-respected anthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians, who engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the trickster, and unique performative qualities. They reveal the story to be as brilliantly layered as a Homeric epic or Shakespearean play, with aspects of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and utopian fantasy intertwined to problematize and scrutinize Theravada Buddhism's cherished virtues. Críticas Readings of the Vessantara Jataka will undoubtedly become a classic in the study of Buddhist biographical literature and its cultural contexts. The collection brings together excellent essays that show us how a central Buddhist narrative can resonate profoundly across a spectrum of dramatic, ethical, and cultural modalities.--Juliane Schober, Arizona State UniversityThe central figure in the Buddhism of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and even parts of Nepal is, as this book demonstrates, Prince Vessantara as much as it is the Buddha himself. This book is highly recommended not only for scholars interested in Buddhism as it is practiced but also for courses on Buddhism and society, religious studies, and anthropology and religion.--Charles Keyes, University of WashingtonThis volume, taken as a whole, starts with some basic questions: what accounts for the tremendous popularity of theVessantara Jataka in the Buddhist world? How and why did it become a tale better known even than the life story of the Buddha? In addressing these issues, the individual contributors go on to reveal and analyze the multiple (and often ambivalent) ways in which the story has been open to interpretation and to enactment in ritual, art, and society in both classic and modern times.Readings of the Vessantara Jataka is a pathbreaking work that will long endure as a go-to reference for anyone interested in this most significant and popular of Buddhist stories.--John S. Strong, Bates College Biografía del autor Steven Collins (PhD, Greek and Latin Literature and Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford) is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfless Persons: imagery and thought in Theravada Buddhism (Cambridge, 1982), Nirvana and other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali imaginaire (Cambridge, 1998), and Nirvana: concept, imagery, narrative (Cambridge, 2010) and the editor of The Vessantara Jtaka (Columbia, 2016). I chose him as a reader for his knowledge of the social and cultural history of Buddhism in premodern and modern Southeast Asia and Pali language and literature.

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Collins Dr, Chester D Tripp Professor in the Humanities Steven
-Editorial: Columbia
-N° Paginas: 232
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Editorial: Columbia
Titulo del libro: Readings of the Vessantara Jtaka - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Collins Dr, Chester D Tripp Professor in the Humanities Steven
Fecha de publicación: 2016
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 232
ISBN-13: 9780231160391
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